Syriana written by Stephen Gaghan and Robert Baer, and directed by the former is the 2006 Winner of The Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, George Clooney was excellent as Bob Barnes, and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay – you find thousands of noted on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

Syriana written by Stephen Gaghan and Robert Baer, and directed by the former is the 2006 Winner of The Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, George Clooney was excellent as Bob Barnes, and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay – you find thousands of noted on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

9 out of 10

 

I had already written https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/syriana-based-on-book-by-robert-baer-94.html about Syriana, but it was included in the program of one of the twenty or more film channels last night, and I took a few looks, in between advertising, saw George Clooney while his tormentor, was extracting his nails

 

Syriana has themes that are vital right now: Middle Wast conflict, oil, America, the CIA, nevertheless, what was happening some twenty years ago does not look like what we see at the news today, even if most of the problems there are millennia old, we can except that technology will make things much worse…

Indeed, the use of drones has been a dramatic game changer, we have seen the transformation in the war in Ukraine, the Russian invaders had been provided by Iran with these new tools, and now they had been flying in the Middle East https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/fire-and-fury-inside-trump-white-house.html

 

I was thinking about Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind written by one of the brightest luminaries of our time, Yuval Harari, and what he says about the peace that had been specific for the last part of the twentieth century, and how we seem to move on to such perilous times, the danger being that the next wars would get nuclear

The idea of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear bombs is not just wonderful, it seems to be a sine qua non, except it seems so complicated now, Yuval Harari is Israeli https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/sapiens-brief-history-of-humankind-by.html if a liberal, so different from Netanyahu

 

If Iran has nuclear bombs, then the rest will want and get them, Saudi Arabia, other Gulf states- America appeared to do the right thing, menacing, then attacking the Islamic state, to destroy nuclear capabilities – this being the new Caligula, the goals and everything else changed, Iran looks like the winner now

The Paradox od Choice is a psychology classic by Barry Schwartz, which was such fun to read – it started with the buying of jeans, how there is a myriad of versions, then how people are overwhelmed by too much choice, which explains the title, if clients are offered too many choices, they do not buy, in tests that are in the book

 

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-paradox-of-choice-by-barry-schwartz_30.html nonetheless, there is a much more import idea – there are two types of humans, satisfizers and maximizers, the former are happy, because they accept what is very good, while the latter group is unhappy…

 

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